DrinkingWaterCheck

Is MONTICELLO WATER SUPPLY's water safe to drink?

MONTICELLO WATER SUPPLY has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 4,040, over 1,707 connections.

MONTICELLO WATER SUPPLY's record against the rest of the country

12 total violations and 4 health-based ones put MONTICELLO WATER SUPPLY at the 66th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 4,351 of 12,903.

How MONTICELLO WATER SUPPLY compares within IA

Among the 203 IA systems in this dataset, the average is 3.5 health-based violations - MONTICELLO WATER SUPPLY's 4 is above that. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.

Most recent violation on record

The last violation EPA has on record for MONTICELLO WATER SUPPLY is from 2014-09-05 (health-based: 2013-01-01). Last reported to EPA: 06/17/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

MONTICELLO WATER SUPPLY's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:

The most severe category on record is microbial contamination / treatment technique, which points toward a microbial-class filter if you want to address it directly.

What this data is and is not

MONTICELLO WATER SUPPLY's numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. Between the utility's meter and MONTICELLO WATER SUPPLY's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 4,351th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.